"life to a forest but accidentally wakes the ""Firebird"" spirit of a nearby volcano. Angered, the Firebird proceeds to destroy the forest and seemingly the Sprite. She survives, but is initially despondent. With the Elk to comfort her, she quickly regains her confidence and restores the forest to its prior glory. The ""Fantasia 2000"" Firebird chapter is considered an exercise in the theme of life-death-rebirth deities; the depiction of the Firebird in it as a violent, flaming volcanic spirit is not related to Stravinsky's original theme. Saviour Pirotta and Catherine Hyde's picture book, ""Firebird"", is based on the original stories"
"of ""The Rite of Spring"", augmented by a rehearsal recording unobtainable elsewhere, was used by Decca on the company's 1957 stereo demonstration LP, ""A Journey into Stereo Sound"". The conductor's clear and methodical counting of beats is a distinct feature of this rehearsal sequence. In his last years he and his ensemble recorded works by Haydn, Beethoven and Brahms. His last recording, of Stravinsky's ""The Firebird,"" was made in London with the New Philharmonia Orchestra in 1968, which included a recording of the rehearsal sessions issued as a memorial to him. Another late recording for Decca, also issued as a"
"Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (; ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: ""The Firebird"" (1910), ""Petrushka"" (1911), and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The last of these transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure and was largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as"
"Theatre and Performance. A full catalogue and details of access arrangements are available here. Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (; ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: ""The Firebird"" (1910), ""Petrushka"" (1911), and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The last of these transformed the way in which subsequent"
"1907, Stravinsky designed and built his own house in Ustilug, which he called ""my heavenly place"". In this house, Stravinsky worked on seventeen of his early compositions, among them ""Feu d'artifice"", ""The Firebird"", ""Petrushka"", and ""The Rite of Spring"". Recently renovated, the house is now a Stravinsky house-museum open to the public. Many documents, letters, and photographs are on display there, and a Stravinsky Festival is held annually in the nearby town of Lutsk. Stravinsky became an overnight sensation following the success of the ""Firebird""'s premiere in Paris on 25 June 1910. The composer had travelled from his estate in"
"in St. Petersburg in 1890. Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, working for Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: ""The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu)"" (1910), ""Petrushka"" (1911) and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The rhythmic structure of these compositions were largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as a musical revolutionary who pushed the boundaries of musical design. Stravinsky's admiration for Tchaikovsky is well documented. Stravinsky's music has often been compared with Cubism. His path often crossed with the Cubists, notably Picasso"
"of Rimsky-Korsakov who, at the time, was his teacher and mentor. It has the form of a scherzo but is still labeled ""orchestral fantasy"" because of its short length. Alexander Siloti conducted the premiere on 6 February 1909. Stravinsky got the commission from Serge Diaghilev to write ""The Firebird"" (1910) in part because Diaghilev heard this piece of music, and was impressed with its orchestration. The work is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes (2nd doubling cor anglais), 3 clarinets (3rd doubling bass clarinet), 2 bassoons, 6 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, cymbals, bass drum, triangle, glockenspiel,"
"at a time when he was virtually unknown to compose the music for ""The Firebird"", after the composer Anatoly Lyadov proved unreliable, and this was instrumental in launching Stravinsky's career in Europe and the United States of America. Stravinsky's early ballet scores were the subject of much discussion. ""The Firebird"" (1910) was seen as an astonishingly accomplished work for such a young artist (Debussy is said to have remarked drily: ""Well, you've got to start somewhere!""). Many contemporary audiences found ""Petrushka"" (1911) to be almost unbearably dissonant and confused. ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913) nearly caused an audience riot. It"
"K. Garelick]. Perhaps Diaghilev's most notable composer-collaborator, however, was Igor Stravinsky. Diaghilev heard Stravinsky's early orchestral works ""Fireworks"" and ""Scherzo fantastique"", and was impressed enough to ask Stravinsky to arrange some pieces by Chopin for the Ballets Russes. In 1910, he commissioned his first score from Stravinsky, ""The Firebird"". ""Petrushka"" (1911) and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913) followed shortly afterwards, and the two also worked together on ""Les noces"" (1923) and ""Pulcinella"" (1920) together with Picasso, who designed the costumes and the set. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Diaghilev stayed abroad. The new Soviet regime, once it became obvious"
"a transcendent performance. Segues were seamless, contrasts were vivid and Stravinsky’s whirling exchanges of voices were expertly choreographed.” Bernard’s complete recorded Beethoven symphony cycle was praised by ""Fanfare"" magazine for its “intensity, spontaneity, propulsive rhythm, textural clarity, dynamic control, and well-judged phrasing”. His recent premiere recording of a new edition of Stravinsky’s '""The Rite of Spring"" was praised by Gramophone as “committed and forceful…(with) thrilling moments”. David Bernard has worked closely with Clinton F. Nieweg, retired librarian of the Philadelphia Orchestra, on editing new editions of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” and “The Firebird Suite—1919 Version”, which has been published"
"Trois mouvements de Petrouchka Trois mouvements de Petrouchka or Three Movements from Petrushka is an arrangement for piano of music from the ballet ""Petrushka"" by the composer Igor Stravinsky for the pianist Arthur Rubinstein. Stravinsky's mentor Sergei Diaghilev had expected Stravinsky would follow the ballet ""The Firebird"" with another dance work, ""The Rite of Spring"". The idea for such a work had occurred to Stravinsky while still working on ""The Firebird"", but Stravinsky felt the need to write something unrelated to the theater and conceived an orchestral work in which the piano would have a prominent part: Stravinsky himself used"
"(Allegro non troppo), from rehearsal 203 to rehearsal 209, in his ballet ""The Firebird"" (1910) is written uniformly in time. Much more characteristically, septuple bars in Stravinsky's scores are found in a context of constantly changing meters, as for example in his ballet ""The Rite of Spring"" (1911–13), where the object appears to be the combination of two- and three-note subdivisions in irregular groupings. For example, in Part II, third tableau, ""Glorification of the Chosen Maiden"", bars of and are interspersed with bars of , , , , , , , , , and time. This treatment of rhythm subsequently"
"Henry Mancini Enrico Nicola ""Henry"" Mancini (; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His best known works include the theme and soundtrack for the ""Peter Gunn"" television series as well as the music for ""The Pink Panther"" film series (""The Pink Panther Theme"") and ""Moon River"" from ""Breakfast"
"the piano's eighty-eight notes, without regard for human fingers or hands. The rolls were not recorded, but were instead marked up from a combination of manuscript fragments and handwritten notes by Jacques Larmanjat, musical director of Pleyel's roll department. Among the compositions that were issued on the Pleyela piano rolls are ""The Rite of Spring"", ""Petrushka"", ""The Firebird"", and ""Song of the Nightingale"". During the 1920s, Stravinsky recorded Duo-Art rolls for the Aeolian Company in both London and New York, not all of which have survived. Patronage was never far away. In the early 1920s, Leopold Stokowski gave Stravinsky regular"
"Die Tageszeiten Die Tageszeiten (""Times of the Day"") is a choral composition written for male voice choir and orchestra by Richard Strauss (1864–1949), TrV 256, Op. 76 (published 1928). It consists of four movements: ""The Morning"", ""Afternoon Peace"", ""The Evening"" and ""The Night"". The lyrics are based on four poems of the same names by Joseph Eichendorff (1788–1857) from his collection ""Wanderlieder"" (Wanderers' songs). The work was premiered on 21 July 1928 with the (Vienna Schubert Society) and the Vienna Philharmonic as part of the Schubert centenary. On 1 May 1924, the male voice choir of the (Vienna Schubert Society)"
"Alfred Newman (composer) Alfred Newman (March 17, 1901 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated forty-three times. In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Some of his most famous scores include ""Wuthering Heights"", ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"", ""The Mark of Zorro"", ""How Green Was My Valley"", ""The Song of Bernadette"", ""Captain from"
"did not contribute much to early discussions; he admitted that his knowledge of music was instinctive and untrained. In one meeting, he inquired about a piece ""on which we might build something of a prehistoric theme ... with animals"". The group was considering ""The Firebird"" by Igor Stravinsky, but Taylor noted that his """"Le Sacre du printemps"" would be something on that order"", to which Disney replied upon hearing a recording, ""This is marvelous! It would be perfect for prehistoric animals. There would be something terrific in dinosaurs, flying lizards, and prehistoric monsters. There could be beauty in the settings."""
"was Stravinsky's first opera. The delay between writing the first and the latter acts was caused by his commissions to write ""The Firebird"", ""Petrushka"", and ""The Rite of Spring"" for impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. After this lapse of time, during which Stravinsky established himself as a ballet composer, he was unsure of returning to ""Le rossignol"", and although he did finish it, he chose to also create a purely symphonic version, ""Le chant du rossignol"". In his autobiography, Stravinsky writes: ""Le chant du rossignol""'s symphonic debut, conducted by Ernest Ansermet at the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, was met"
"joined the ASCAP in 1948. Her compositions include ""If I Could Tell You"" (the theme of ""Voice of Firestone"" programs), ""In My Garden"", ""You Are the Song in My Heart"", ""Do You Recall?"", ""Melody of Love"" and ""Bluebirds"". She died on July 7, 1954. Idabelle Smith Firestone Idabelle Smith Firestone (November 10, 1874 – July 7, 1954) was an American composer and songwriter. She was born in Minnesota City, Minnesota on November 10, 1874. She was educated at Alma College, Ontario. Her father, George, held the patent to a flour milling process. On 20 November 1895, she married Harvey Samuel"
"Nos. 4, 7, 8, and 11, and Leoš Janáček's Sinfonietta. All of these works exploit the instrument's dark, powerful lower range. Prokofiev wrote parts for the instrument in his Symphonies Nos. 2–7 and in his ballet ""Romeo and Juliet"". Sergei Rachmaninoff used the instrument to great effect in his Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 and in his symphonic poem, ""Isle of The Dead"". Igor Stravinsky also wrote complex parts for the instrument throughout his career, most prominently in his ballets ""The Firebird"" (1910), ""Petrushka"" (1911) and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The bass clarinet has a solo at the opening"
"The Hounds of Spring The Hounds of Spring is a concert overture for winds, written by the American composer, Alfred Reed in 1980. Reed was inspired by the poem ""Atalanta in Calydon"" (1865), by Victorian era English poet, Algernon Charles Swinburne, a recreation in modern English verse of an ancient Greek tragedy. That poem includes the line ""When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces."" It was Reed's desire to capture the dual elements of the poem - high-spirited youthful jauntiness and the innocence of tender love. ""The Hounds of Spring"" was commissioned by, and dedicated to, the John"
"works such as ""Petrushka"" (1911), ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913), up to the ""Symphonies of Wind Instruments"" (1920). Passages using this scale are unmistakable as early as the ""Scherzo fantastique"", ""Fireworks"" (both from 1908), and ""The Firebird"" (1910). It also appears in later works by Stravinsky, such as the ""Symphony of Psalms"" (1930), the ""Symphony in Three Movements"" (1945), most of the neoclassical works from the Octet (1923) to ""Agon"" (1957), and even in some of the later serial compositions such as the ""Canticum Sacrum"" (1955) and ""Threni"" (1958). In fact, ""few if any composers have been known to employ"
"became friendly with Diaghilev and Igor Stravinsky. In the winter and spring of 1921 he presented two series of concerts of new music, which proved very popular but made him little money. On 8 April at the Queen's Hall he presented the UK premiere of Stravinsky's 1919 Suite from ""The Firebird"", and two world premieres: Arnold Bax's ""The Bard of the Dimbovitza"", song cycle with orchestra, with Ethel Fenton (mezzo-soprano) and the ""Storm Music"" from Arthur Bliss's incidental music for ""The Tempest"". On 20 April 1921 Arthur Bliss's ""Conversations"" for string quartet had its world premiere at a Clark concert."
"Joseph Philbrick Webster Joseph Philbrick Webster, also known as J.P. Webster (February 18, 1819 – January 18, 1875), was an American songwriter and composer most notable for his musical compositions during the Antebellum and American Civil War periods of United States history, and his post-war hymns. Amongst his most notable works are the ballad ""Lorena"" (1857), often considered the most popular song of the American Civil War (on both sides), ""I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets"" (written in 1860 and later known as ""Wildwood Flower"") and ""In the Sweet By and By"" (1868), one of the best-known Christian hymns in American"
"Elmer Bernstein Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor who is best known for his film scores. In a career that spanned more than five decades, he composed ""some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history"", including over 150 original movie scores, as well as scores for nearly 80 television productions. Examples of his widely popular and critically acclaimed works are scores to ""The Magnificent Seven"", ""The Ten Commandments"", ""The Great Escape"", ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", ""Ghostbusters"", ""The Black Cauldron"", ""Airplane!"", ""The Rookies"", ""Cape Fear"", ""Animal House"", and ""The Age of"
"Ottorino Respighi Ottorino Respighi (; 9 July 187918 April 1936) was an Italian violinist, composer and musicologist, best known for his trilogy of orchestral tone poems: ""Fountains of Rome"" (1916), ""Pines of Rome"" (1924), and ""Roman Festivals"" (1928). His musicological interest in 16th-, 17th- and 18th-century music led him to compose pieces based on the music of these periods. He also wrote several operas, the most famous being ""La fiamma"". Ottorino Respighi was born on 9 July 1879 in an apartment inside Palazzo Fantuzzi on Via Guido Reni in Bologna, Italy, into a musical family. His father, a local piano"
"Hit songs of their day include ""The Donkey Serenade"" (written with composer Herbert Stothart ""based on a theme of Rudolf Friml"") from ""The Firefly"", ""Always and Always"" from ""Mannequin"" and ""It's a Blue World"" from ""Music in My Heart"". Hit songs of their day include ""Strange Music"" from ""Song of Norway""; and Stranger in Paradise, ""Baubles, Bangles and Beads"" and ""And This Is My Beloved"" from ""Kismet"". Robert Wright (writer) Robert (Bob) Craig Wright (September 25, 1914 – July 27, 2005) was an American composer-lyricist for Hollywood and the musical theatre best known for the Broadway musical and musical film"
"of Richard Wagner, he went on to experiment with impressionism in music, atonal music and chromaticism. His most famous works include ""Clair de Lune"" for piano (written ca. 1890, published 1905), ""La Mer"" for orchestra (1905) and the opera ""Pelléas et Mélisande"" (1903-1905). The most revolutionary composer to work in Paris during the ""Belle Époque"" was the Russian-born Igor Stravinsky. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: ""The Firebird"" (1910), ""Petrushka"" (1911) and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The last of these transformed the"
"Victor label. Sam Raphling Sam Raphling (March 19, 1910, Fort Worth, Texas - January 8, 1988, New York City) was an American composer and pianist. He studied under Artur Schnabel at the University of Michigan.He wrote in a variety of musical genres, including orchestral works, chamber pieces, and vocal art songs; the latter of which remain his most notable legacy. Also of note is his orchestral suite ""Dance of the Chassidic"" and his piano arrangement of ""The Rite of Spring"". He wrote two children's operas with librettist James V. Hatch. As a pianist he made a number of recording on"
"Leonard Bernstein's ""Overture to Candide"", Gustav Holst's ""First Suite in E-flat for Military Band"", George Gershwin's ""Rhapsody in Blue"" with Kathryn Woodard at the piano, Donald Grantham's ""Southern Harmony"", Percy Grainger's ""Over The Hills And Far Away"", Frank Ticheli's ""Blue Shades"", David F. Wilborn's newly-commissioned ""Concertante Caprice"", and John P. Sousa's ""The Freelance March"". Their encore was Sousa's ""Stars and Stripes Forever"". Rhea has composed and arranged over 300 works. Since the 1990s, Rhea has arranged for university and public school marching bands and served as a clinician and composer. Some of Rhea's commissions have been performed for the Texas"
"programs. The first part of the program consists of Stravinsky's ""The Firebird"", Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Ravel's ""Daphnis et Chloé"" Suite No. 2, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 and Brahms's Intermezzo in A. Approximately fifty percent of the musicians were chosen from the Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Tulsa Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and others. The other fifty percent were chosen from the New York area;"
"featured in the list, including Elmer Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, Max Steiner, and John Williams. His scores for the following films were also nominated for inclusion: Jerry Goldsmith Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for such films as """" and four other films within the ""Star Trek"" franchise, ""The Sand Pebbles"", ""Logan's Run"", ""Planet of the Apes"", ""Patton"", ""Papillon"", ""Chinatown"", ""The Wind and the Lion"", ""The Omen"", ""The Boys from Brazil"", ""Capricorn One"", ""Alien"", ""Outland"", ""Poltergeist"", ""The Secret of NIMH"","
"L. Forster Secondary School Concert Band of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and its director, Gerald Brown. The world premiere was in Windsor on May 8, 1980, conducted by the composer. Ever since then it has been a popular concert piece played by high school ensembles around the world. The Hounds of Spring The Hounds of Spring is a concert overture for winds, written by the American composer, Alfred Reed in 1980. Reed was inspired by the poem ""Atalanta in Calydon"" (1865), by Victorian era English poet, Algernon Charles Swinburne, a recreation in modern English verse of an ancient Greek tragedy. That"